Yearly Archives: 2011

Microsoft Tablet vs. Apple Office: Which idea is worse?

Posted: 11:52 am
June 8, 2011
Apple, Microsoft
on Microsoft Tablet vs. Apple Office: Which idea is worse?

One of the biggest signs of success and opulence is losing respect for money. If you have trust-fund-baby friends out there that have never had to work for a dollar (or euro or pound to be fair to my readers), … Continue reading →

Apple iCloud Relives Past Mistakes

Posted: 11:21 am
June 7, 2011
Apple
4 Comments

Apple is slowly taking over Microsoft as the dominant software company both by mindshare and by revenue. It has hung it’s hat on being the leader in the post-PC (read: no-Microsoft) world. It’s actually a quote straight from Steve Jobs. … Continue reading →

ExchangeDefender Web Share Uploads for Clients

Posted: 10:00 am
June 7, 2011
ExchangeDefender
2 Comments

ExchangeDefender Web Share has been one of the most popular ExchangeDefender features in the 5.0 release and we’ve improved it quite a bit in 7.0 – with the biggest request in all of ExchangeDefender platform: We need to allow our … Continue reading →

I’m back

Posted: 9:21 pm
June 6, 2011
IT Business
on I’m back

Well, 2011 has been nice. Almost half of it down with some back-to-back binges personally and professionally. I spent the end of 2010 with another baby, then started 2011 with a 3 month Ironman session that ExchangeDefender 7 was born … Continue reading →

Launching Stuff The Right Way

Posted: 10:46 pm
June 2, 2011
IT Business
on Launching Stuff The Right Way

On Monday we launched ExchangeDefender 7. So to be fair, I’ve had 7 opportunities to learn how to do this right 😉 I’m offering this out loud because as much as it is just simple common sense, you don’t have … Continue reading →

ExchangeDefender 7

Posted: 3:22 am
May 31, 2011
Uncategorized
on ExchangeDefender 7

Something totally awesome and cool just happened. We launched a product at 9 PM, published a bug hotline, did a live switch in a live environment… and the line didn’t ring once in 6 hours that I’ve been sitting next … Continue reading →

When should you open your mouth?

Posted: 8:28 am
May 24, 2011
IT Business
on When should you open your mouth?

This is something I wish I knew in my 20’s but I often encounter much older people that have not learned this lesson. Quick question: When should you open your mouth? It’s so easy to get dragged into fights online … Continue reading →

And now something a little different

Posted: 1:09 am
May 18, 2011
Cloud, ExchangeDefender, Microsoft
10 Comments

Nearly three years ago I wrote series of articles that I called Lucy’s Sail (Google), about the change of OWN’s business direction and our focus and commitment to the cloud. It almost instantly made me the SMB community public enemy … Continue reading →

Week Ahead

Posted: 9:23 pm
May 15, 2011
ExchangeDefender
1 Comment

Back from Bahamas, had a great cruise. Wife, kids, 6 course meals, 5K run on the island and crystal clear waters. I highly recommend it and just for the ladies, enjoy: Now, since somehow a picture of me without my … Continue reading →

Quitting

Posted: 10:15 pm
May 11, 2011
Rant
on Quitting

This is a post for the new category named Rants. Now most of the rants will likely be very abrasive in support of my Vladville alter ego which keeps most of you too scared to call me so I can … Continue reading →